Recent content by bakana

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    Context, Challenge and Gratification

    While I see the usefulness of the scheme, I think it's better suited to classifying games than rating them - like Scott McCloud's similar symbolic/realistic/abstract classification triangle for comic art styles. Balancing the three categories doesn't necessarily make for a good game, and in...
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    Zero Punctuation: Video Game Voters Network

    I understand this is a cool and important political thing...but...but... "different to"? "DIFFERENT TO"??? I'm not normally a grammar maniac, but man, that construction makes me all crawly.
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    Americanisms and British...isms?

    Oh, and in the US we 'take' baths, whereas the British 'have' them. Same goes for showers, I think.
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    Americanisms and British...isms?

    Oh, and a minor niggle. In the UK they say "different to," whereas Americans say "different from"
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    Americanisms and British...isms?

    'bugger' in the U.S. is a very inoffensive term used to describe something or someone small and perhaps annoying. For example, if you were chasing a little cousin around the house, you might say "I'll get you, you little bugger!" In the UK, the verb 'to bugger' means 'to have anal sex with'...